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Foundation. The objectives are the development ofinterdisciplinary skills and knowledge and the transfer of new technology to application. Thecourse is “Smart Materials and Sensors” and is co-listed in electrical, civil, aerospace, andmechanical engineering. It emphasizes the interconnectedness of knowledge in the smart structuresarea. The bridge is a field laboratory for students and a long-term demonstration for industry. TheWWW site serves both an internal audience of students and an external audience of industry. The site has a clear design philosophy.16 The site content for the course and the bridge areclosely linked and must accommodate the well-defined internal student audience and the generalexternal industry audience. The objectives

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Luiz DaSilva

Session 1658 Large-scale Synchronous/Asynchronous Collaborative Distributed Learning in a Graduate-Level Computer Engineering Course Luiz A. DaSilva Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Alexandria, VA 22314 USAAbstractRecent advances in telecommunications and network technology, increasing demand forcontinuing education for industry professionals, and the general mobility and geographicdistribution of the population are forcing major changes in both synchronous and asynchronousgraduate education. This paper describes the author's

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Jose Saldivar; Ighal Mehmedagic; Siva Thangam; Richard Cole

Session 1520 Computers in Education Division Design and Implementation of a Computer-Aided Instrumentation System for a CFR Engine Test Facility Siva Thangam, Jose Saldivar, Richard Cole, Igbal Mehmedagic Stevens Institute of TechnologyAbstractThe design and implementation of a computer-assisted instrumentation system for a Cooperative FuelResearch (CFR) engine test facility as part of modernization and development of the thermalengineering laboratory was carried out at Stevens Institute of Technology. The

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William Sutton; Kathryn Laskey; Elbert White; Mark Houck

Session 2793 Preparing Non-traditional Engineering Programs For a Successful ABET/EAC Visit Under EC2000 E. Bernard White, William Sutton, Kathryn Laskey, and Mark Houck George Mason UniversityAbstractGeorge Mason University, located in the Northern Virginia high technology community, offersengineering programs in Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, Computer Engineering, ElectricalEngineering, and Systems Engineering to a diverse student body. In this paper, we discuss thechallenges we faced, lessons learned, and opportunities that we seized while preparing for asuccessful

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Ingrid St. Omer

Session 2230 Assessment of Student Web Site Usage in a Core Electrical Engineering Course Ingrid St. Omer Northern Arizona UniversityAbstractThe increasing interest in on-line courses and distance education suggests the need to evaluatethe manner in which students use elements of instructional technology. This paper reviewsstudent usage of various components of a web site developed for a core Electrical Engineeringcourse in semiconductor device physics. Material contained in the web site included thesyllabus, the course

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David Mandeville

Session 1639 Innovative Teaching Methods in Engineering Economy: Web Delivery, Excel Calculation, Teamwork Support David E. Mandeville Oklahoma State UniversityAbstractAdvancing technology has affected both the classroom-learning environment, the methods ofperforming economic analysis and the expectations of employers. This paper describes aninnovative course, delivering engineering economics training that integrates three newtechnologies: web delivery, spreadsheet calculations and team support. • The classroom environment allows Web delivery

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J.B. Troy; David Kanter; B.J. Reiser

), theother contributing some expertise in BME and systems physiology. The BME and LS Page 6.117.3communities were able to collaborate in this way via the National Science Foundation-funded Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationEngineering Research Center for Bioengineering Educational Technologies (VaNTH- named forits partner institutions Vanderbilt, Northwestern, U. Texas, and Harvard/MIT), whose mission itis to take the principled and collaborative approach to designing instructional environments

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Patricia Harms; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering (ABE) at Iowa State Universityadministers two separate curricula, the Agricultural Engineering (AE) curriculum in the Collegeof Engineering, and the Agricultural Systems Technology (AST) curriculum in the College ofAgriculture. The learning community was designed to enhance our students’ academic and sociallives, in addition to providing an opportunity for students from our two majors to have at leastone class together (first-year composition). Comprehensive objectives, as well as specific ABELC objectives, have been designed to help guide our program development and on-goingassessment.ABE Learning Community ObjectivesWe established the following comprehensive objectives for the ABE LC initiative

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participate in hands-on engineering activities. The outreach programs that nowintegrate solid modeling technology range from an introductory one-hour experience to a long-term ongoing effort. The four programs specifically addressed in this paper include: 1) a one-hour solid modeling exercise, sponsored by the Society of Women Engineers to attract youngwomen to engineering careers; 2) a half-day session, in which both part and assembly modelingexercises are used to give high school students an exposure to Mechanical Engineering; 3) aweek-long effort, in which solid modeling is integrated with rapid prototyping technology andother engineering instruction to provide a comprehensive design/build/test experience; and 4) anongoing relationship with a

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Steven de Haas; S.K. Ramesh; Preetham Kumar; Michael Fujita; Elizabeth Raley; Andrew Lindsay

Session 2793 An Interactive Workshop for High School Teachers to Develop and Teach Pre-Engineering Curricula S. K. Ramesh*, Michael J. Fujita, Preetham Kumar*, Andrew Lindsay, Steven de Haas*, Elizabeth-Gillis Raley *California State University Sacramento / Defense Microelectronics Activity/ Parallax Inc., / Sacramento Engineering and Technology Regional ConsortiumAbstractThe College of Engineering and Computer Science at California State University, Sacramentohas organized and conducted free interactive workshops for high school

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Luis Ortiz; Elisa Mestorino Bachofen

traditional Engineering teaching methods.This Methodology enables students to adopt a working method related to their futureprofessional activities, and is therefore particularly suited to achieve the abilities requested bythe ABET 2000According to the multidisciplinary characteristics demanded by the Experimental Methodology,its extension to other areas of the Engineering education, starting from the junior years, is highlyrecommended.It is also necessary to continue studying and researching for methods to evaluate the influenceof the Experimental Methodology over the student’s maturity levels, according to Perry’sModel.As a corolary, the advances in technology should be applied to introduce changes in theEngineering’s teaching and learning

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Stephen Zahorian; Sacharia Albin; William Swart

Session 1403 Global Engineering Education: A partnership between Rajagiri College (Cochin, India), and Old Dominion University (Norfolk, VA) Stephen Zahorian, Sacharia Albin, William Swart College of Engineering and Technology Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA 23529AbstractAs part of its efforts in global engineering education, the College of Engineering andTechnology at Old Dominion University has established a cooperative agreement with RajagiriCollege in Cochin, South India, for a 2+2 B.S. Computer Engineering

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David Hutto; Kathryn Hollar

well-versed in the science behind thediscussion topic provides complementary perspectives. Through this activity, weshow that the effective use of rhetoric can shape public and company policiestowards new technologies. We also underline the fact that science andengineering operate within a social context.In this paper, we detail how we prepared students for class discussion, how thestasis questions of classical rhetoric shaped that discussion, and how we feel thistechnique can be expanded on.History and BackgroundIn 1992, Henry M. Rowan donated $100,000,000 to the then Glassboro StateCollege to establish a unique engineering program in southern New Jersey. Whatis now Rowan University boasts an innovative College of Engineering comprised

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Patricia Harms; Steven Mickelson; Thomas Brumm

unique in that it is situated in two colleges. Studentsmajoring in agricultural engineering (AE) are in the College of Engineering. Conversely,students majoring in agricultural systems technology (AST) are in the College of Agriculture.Perhaps not surprisingly, this often creates dissonance between the students, the same individualswho will eventually be working together in industry. The university learning communityinitiative provided funding for the ABE LC, which was awarded through a competitive proposalprocess at the university level.The ABE LC includes two primary components: the learning community, which is created byhaving students co-enroll for specially selected linked courses, and the living community, areserved portion of a specific

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Eckehard Doerry; Bridget Bero; David Hartman

Session 2660 Northern Arizona University’s "Design4Practice" Sequence: Interdisciplinary Training in Engineering Design for the Global Era Eckehard Doerry1, Bridget Bero2, David Hartman3 1 Computer Science and Eng., 2Civil and Environmental Eng, 3 Mechanical Eng. Northern Arizona University, Box 15600 Flagstaff, Arizona, 86011 USAAbstractIntroduction of computer technology, changing corporate structures, and global competition havesignificantly changed modern

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Wayne LePori; Scott Osborn; Marty Matlock; Cady Engler

building and testing ideas, and generally knew their way around atoolbox. That understanding can no longer be assumed, as technological processes increasinglyare treated as black boxes.1 In response to this concern we developed and have taught a coursedesigned to introduce sophomore students in engineering to field and laboratory techniques usedin biological systems, agricultural, and environmental engineering. Our experience has been thatstudents are generally very resistant to discovery-based laboratories since by definition thisapproach lacks explicit step-by-step guidance.The primary objective of the course is to provide students with physical applications oftheoretical concepts. This course is a common requirement across the undergraduate

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S. K. Khanna; David Roylance; C. H. Jenkins

Session 1464 Innovations in Teaching Mechanics of Materials in Materials Science and Engineering Departments David Roylance Massachusetts Institute of Technology C. H. Jenkins and S. K. Khanna South Dakota School of Mines and TechnologyAbstractTraditional mechanical design employs experimentally obtained or handbook material properties in selection andsizing to develop a product. This approach is increasingly inefficient as designs come to employ

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Thomas Harmon; Eva Baker; Gregory Chung

Page 6.783.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Educationcompeting constraints of functionality, cost, reliability, maintainability, and safety8. Today’sgraduates are apprenticed for 1 to 2 years before they engage in meaningful engineering tasks. Thehalf-life of engineering knowledge ranges from 2 to 7 years, yet the engineered systems arebecoming more complex and multidisciplinary9.To encourage engineering schools to respond to these changes, the Accreditation Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET) has specified 11 criteria for graduating students in theirEngineering Criteria 2000 (EC2000

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Janet Sharp; Rebecca Sidler Kellogg; Barbara M. Adams; Loren Zachary

; Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationThe TechKnow ProgramThe TechKnow program is a collaborative effort among the Iowa State Colleges of Engineering,Education, Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Agriculture. Its purpose is to increase themathematics, engineering, science, and technology knowledge of in-service and future teachersso that they are better prepared to meet the classroom needs of 21st century students.The courses have been developed explicitly for students in elementary and secondary education.A course in botany, Botany in the Classroom, was taught for the first time this past Fall 2000semester. An existing course in entomology, Bugs in the Classroom, was taught during theSpring 2001

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instructive. Students like to use the technology, but don’t use itas effectively as they could. The author, while still having much to learn about effective use ofthis technology, will continue to use it in all his courses in the future.I. IntroductionThis paper is about the use of the World-Wide Web in a three-credit hour course required forjunior civil engineering students at Purdue University. The course covers engineering economicsfor half the course and the remaining portion of the course covers engineering ethics,professionalism, case studies, and history. Several sessions of the course are reserved for one ortwo engineering case studies, usually presented by an engineering practitioner. The courseenrollment is typically in the range of 70 to

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and the unique factors that affect the students in choosing a major at theNaval Academy. The authors conclude that effective recruitment methods should provide positiverole models for prospective female engineers, but that these recruitment efforts should avoidobvious reference to gender.1 INTRODUCTIONIn the recent Land of Plenty report of the Congressional Commission on the Advancement ofWomen and Minorities in Science, Engineering and Technology Development [1], the commissionconcluded that America needs to cultivate more diversity among students and professionals inscience, engineering, and technology to maintain a competitive edge in these fields. At thecollegiate level, there are a number of female students who possess the ability to

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Nigel Middleton; Debra Lasich; Barbara Moskal

, the enrollment of women in computer science has witnessed a substantial drop10. As a“Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright  2001, American Society for Engineering Education” Session 1392result of the overall decrease in enrollment in science related fields and the economic expansionthat has resulted from technological advancements, the U.S. is currently experiencing a shortageof trained scientists and engineers. The government responded by increasing the annual numberof temporary, professional-worker visas from 65,000 to 115,000 11 for a three year

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RiddleAeronautical University, Prescott in our development of a space option within aerospaceengineering.The authors have backgrounds in spacecraft attitude dynamics, spacecraft systems engineering,and orbital mechanics. We are the team teachers of the new courses. However, educating studentsin space technology involves many more disciplines than our own. Electrical engineering, forexample, is a key area in space technology. So, as we have been developing this program, wehave needed and received input as well as team teaching from members of other departments on Page 6.519.1 Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education

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Thomas Ho; Jack Hopper; David Cocke; Daniel Chen; Carl Yaws; Kuyen Li; John Gossage

, American Society for Engineering Education19. Suresh Munagala, Daniel H. Chen, and Jack R. Hopper “Experience with a Process Simulator in a Senior Process Control Laboratory”, Chemical Engineering Education, 27(3), 1993, pp.194-199.20. Srlinivas Palanki, Vishak Sampath: “A Simple Process Dynamics Experiment” Chemical Engineering Education Volume31, Number 1, Winter 1997, 64-67.21. HYSYS Reference, Version 1.2, Hyprotech Ltd., Calgary, Canada, 1997.22. DMCPlus, Aspen Technology Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA, 199823. ASPEN PLUS User's Set, Release 10.01, Aspen Technology Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA, 1998.24. PRO/II with PROvision Workbooks, Version 5.01, Simulation Sciences, Inc., Brea, CA, 1997.25. Perry’s Chemical Engineering Handbook, 6th ed

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Leo Smith; Hisham Alnajjar; Donald Leone; Mohammad Saleh Keshawarz; Ladimer Nagurney; Devdas Shetty

Learning Block Reading & Writing RLC 110 Page 6.612.2 Figure 1 – Freshman Year (First Semester)Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright 2001, American Society for Engineering EducationShared Outcomes of First Semester FIGThe faculty of ES141 and RLC110 worked as a team to identify the shared outcomes betweenthe two courses. Then, they worked on identifying the activities, the technology to support

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Interactive Video Network (IVN). All laboratories and some of theupper division electives are taught on site.Minority University Research and Education Division (MURED) of NASA has awardeda three year (2000-2002) grant titled “Pre-College Activities For Enhancing MinorityParticipation in Engineering”, to help reinforce UMES mission to improve therepresentation of minorities and women in mathematics, sciences, technology and inparticular, in the field of engineering. The funding not only complements the UMESmission to actively recruit and retain minority, women, and economically disadvantagedstudents but is also intended to help the growth of the UMES engineering program.This paper describes the “Summer Engineering Bridge Program (SEBP)” at UMES

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Paul Duesing; Kevin Schmaltz; Dan Goodrich; Pamela Schmaltz

teams of four to eight students, team size beingdependent upon on the magnitude of the project and the perceived strengths and skilllevels of the students available. LSSU attempts to complete project screening and initialteam formation before the start of the fall semester. Obtaining projects from sponsoringcompanies is germane to the success of the program.III. LSSU’s Industrial Advisory BoardMost of the ideas for projects are obtained from members of LSSU’s Industrial AdvisoryBoard (IAB). The IAB is comprised of professional men and women in engineeringpositions who actively participate in the development of LSSU’s engineering andengineering technology programs, faculty members and students. The IAB presently has33 members and has been

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Session 2478 Curriculum Development for the Integration of Marine Design in a First-Year Engineering Graphics Course Eric W. Hansberry Associate Professor, Northeastern University, Lynn Hansberry Mayo, M.S. CCC/SLPAbstractFirst-year students at the School of Engineering Technology and the Lowell Institute atNortheastern University have been exposed to the marine field. This paper will discuss how tointegrate marine topics into an introductory design course. These

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Stephen McKnight; Gilead Tadmor; E Everbach; William E. Cole; Michael Ruane

donated by industry, a kind of discovery lab with expensive parts using the students’fascination with high-technology products to inspire hands-on learning.In application to beginning engineering courses, we realized that the HTT&TL provided asolution to many of the problems of teaching computation and programming to freshmen. Thecombination of computers with test and measurement instrumentation is an opportunity to teachcomputer programming through real-time data acquisition and control. Instead of printing out Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Page 6.936.2

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them todevelop the ability to function and interact with people in a foreign culture. This paper describesthese different programs and discusses the process used to establish and support them.IntroductionIn his defining book on the topic, Friedman1 describes globalization as the international systemthat replaced the Cold War system. Globalization is the integration of capital, technology, andinformation across national borders, in a way that is creating a single global market. Phillips2points out that it is engineers who are mainly responsible for bringing about the new era ofglobalization through technological developments, especially the development of computers andhigh speed communication networks. It is ironic that we as engineering